STEVENS POINT- The Stevens Point Area Senior High boys hockey team is a game away from a trip to the state tournament.

The Panthers advanced to WIAA sectional final with a 9-1 win over D.C. Everest on Tuesday at K.B. Willett.

Second-seeded SPASH (21-2-1) faces Wausau West on Saturday at Mosinee in the sectional title game. The Panthers and West split a pair of games during the Wisconsin Valley Conference regular season.

D.C. Everest closed out its season at 15-9.

GIRLS HOCKEY

Fox Cities 2,

Point/Rapids/Marsh 1 (OT)

WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Fox Cities’ Karly Kalies scored at the 5:54 mark of overtime to lift the Stars over the Red Panthers in a sectional semifinal matchup at the South Wood County Recreation Center.

Fox Cities earned a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at the 13:58 mark of the first period.

The Point/Rapids/Marshfield co-op got a second-period goal from Alayna Bruneau off an assist from Bryar Brooks to tie the score. Goalie Pistol Cowden made 42 saves for the Red Panthers.

“I’m just really proud of our team and the season overall,” Point/Rapids/Marshfield coach Rachael Graves said. “We worked hard tonight and just couldn’t get the goal we needed to win. We had great goaltending and had the chance to win but we couldn’t get our offense going.”

The Red Panthers finished the season with a record of 12-14 overall.

Fox Cities will battle Central Wisconsin at Greenheck Field House on Friday.

IOLA - The eighth-seeded Thunderbirds scored just three points in overtime of a Division 4 regional quarterfinal loss to the ninth-seeded Zephyrs.

Leighten Fischer scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to pace Iola-Scandinavia. Kendall Johnson recorded four points, six rebounds and five steals while Mia Wandtke had five points and six rebounds.

Iola-Scandinavia finished the season with an overall mark of 11-12. The Thunderbirds placed fifth in the Central Wisconsin Conference-8 with a 6-8 mark.